Corporate Counsel, Salesforce
Product Legal
$172.5-260.1k
+ Employee stock purchasing program
World's leading CRM provider
Be an early applicant
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172.5-260.1k
+ Employee stock purchasing program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Juris Doctor degree and active membership in at least one US state bar
- Experience: 5+ years of combined experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Regulatory Expertise: Deep understanding of AI, data privacy and security laws (EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and their application to data management platforms
- AI: Familiarity with AI/ML legal and ethical considerations, including emerging AI regulations
- Technical Literacy: Comfort discussing complex technical architectures, APIs, etc
- Commercial Skills: Excellent drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills
- Judgment: Excellent business judgment and the proven ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice in fast-paced environments
- Interpersonal Skills: Proven ability to build relationships across Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams to drive consensus on high-stakes risks
Desirable
- Prior experience supporting data integration, ETL, or middleware products
- Experience with infrastructure and log governance
- Prior exposure to API agreements, developer terms, and platform ecosystems
- CIPP/US or CIPP/E certification
What the job involves
- Salesforce is seeking a proactive, business-oriented, and tech-savvy attorney to join our Product Legal team and support our Platform and Engineering teams
- In this role, you will partner directly with executives, developers, and product managers to provide strategic legal counsel and thought leadership throughout the entire product lifecycle, from initial research and development through launch and global distribution
- This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge data management, AI governance, and enterprise cloud technology. You'll partner with cross-functional teams across Salesforce to navigate complex product, privacy, regulatory, and commercial challenges as we build the unified data foundation for agentic AI
- Strategic Product Counseling: Serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams developing new and existing Clouds, products and features. Conduct deep-dive legal reviews of new features to ensure products are enterprise-ready and comply with GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific regulations (HIPAA, FedRAMP)
- AI & ML Governance: Provide legal guidance for the use of machine learning and generative AI within data integration workflows, ensuring compliance with the EU AI Act and Salesforce’s policies and Ethical AI principles
- Integration Support: Partner with M&A integration teams to harmonize contracting processes, terms and conditions, and legal frameworks between Salesforce and newly acquired businesses
- Commercial Transactions: Partner with Commercial Legal and Privacy teams to draft and negotiate complex product-specific terms, Data Processing Addendums, partner agreements, and terms of service
- Stakeholder Partnership: Serve as trusted legal advisor to product management, engineering, sales, and business development teams
- Regulatory & Compliance: Monitor and advise on global legal developments affecting data integrators and SaaS providers, translating these into actionable product requirements
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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